Over the weekend, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington D.C. performed at Knox Pride festival in Knoxville, Tennessee. After their performance, as the group was driving away in their bus, they noticed the group of homophobic street preachers who w… Read

The Tennessee Senate voted Thursday 23-6 to approve a bill that LGBT civil rights advocates claim would let state judges discriminate against members of the LGBT community, the Associated Press reports. If signed by Gov. Bill Haslam, Senate Bill 1085… Read

Tennessee state senator Mark Green is Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of the Army. He would succeed Obama’s Army Secretary Eric Fanning, the first openly gay man to hold that position. And what a change it would be. The HuffPost reports… Read

A brawl broke out and eight or nine gunshots were fired at the funeral of Charlotte Stallion (above), a lesbian who drove her car into the Mississippi River in an apparent suicide, according to the Commercial Appeal: This all began around 1 p.m. at M… Read

Two Republican lawmakers were booed out of a Tennessee press conference this week after they filed a bill against same-sex marriage. The bill argues that Tennessee doesn’t have to follow the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage. Fox17 reports… Read

Tennessee lawmakers have reintroduced a “Natural Marriage Defense Act” that aims to define marriage as between one man and woman in spite of judicial decisions to the contrary. It claims that same-sex marriage is unlawful and all efforts… Read

A Tennessee woman says she was the target of a hate crime when a dead cow was dumped outside her home. Those responsible also scattered approximately 70 nails near her vehicles. Johnson City’s Gaelyn Porter (right) believes the events were motivated… Read

A group of more than 190 businesses in Tennessee have joined together to warn lawmakers against enacting anti-gay laws that could harm the state’s economy. Businesses who have signed on to the Tennessee Thrives coalition include the Methodist Le Bonh… Read

A 24-year-old gay man was found brutally murdered at a trucking business in West Nashville, Tennessee last Monday. Although police could only confirm that Deon Brown (above) died as a result of stabbing, the Rickey Smiley Morning Show is reporting th… Read

A transgender woman in Tennessee says someone set fire to her pickup truck after spray-painting “Trump” across the hood and tailgate in an apparent hate crime. The woman, a disabled Army veteran who lives with her 3-year-old son, said the… Read

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APPLE. Tim Cook tells employees the company is donating $2 million to fight hate groups: “Cook sent a memo to employees Wednesday pledging the donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. The Montgomery, Alabama… Read

A 25-year-old man has been jailed for knowingly passing on the HIV virus to two former lovers. Based in Nottingham, England, Antonio Reyes-Minana had unprotected sex with two other men separately in 2008 and 2012. The men later discovered their HIV s… Read

Michigan police are investigating a fire at the home of a prominent LGBT activist as a possible hate crime. Police had already confirmed that the fire at the Jackson City home of Nikki Joly and Chris Moore was being investigated as arson. Joly is dir… Read

On Twitter Thursday morning, Donald Trump lamented the removal of racist Confederate statues around the country: “Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments… Read

Following the recent publication of new photos of Vladimir Putin putting on an annual macho shirtless show in the Russian wilderness, Pavel Durov, the founder of the social networking sites VKontakte and Telegram, set up a challenge for his followers… Read

Rapper Tyler the Creator revealed that he had a boyfriend in his teens during an interview on Know Wave’s Koopz Tunes radio podcast. Said Tyler after the host suggests that he’s more open-minded than he’s been in the past: “I had a… Read

President Trump’s unimaginable press conference Tuesday, where he again claimed that white supremacist protesters and counter-protesters were to blame for tensions in Virginia, continued to dominate the news Wednesday. On NBC’s Late Night Wednesday,… Read

Recently at a dinner party I attended there was a civilized debate about the famous monuments around the country glorifying the Confederacy and its leaders. A few people expressed concerned that moving monuments is rewriting history and a case of pol… Read

If you haven’t seen VICE’s documentary on the Charlottesville white supremacist rally, it’s really worth 20 minutes of your time. Among its subjects is Unite the Right’s Christopher Cantwell, the neo-Nazi seen crying in a vide… Read